Engineering Research Equipment Grant: AI Applications Workstations

提供了设备资金，用于购买两个探索者工作站、两个处理器、大容量存储器、一台Business Pro个人计算机和一台激光打印机。将对人工智能(AI)技术--特别是基于知识的(专家)系统--在工程中的应用进行研究。这些人工智能技术将被视为提供了更好的工程分析和设计方法。三个特别的研究项目将受益。首先是开发一个专家系统，帮助建筑师和工程师检查建筑设计，以确保它们符合规范要求，在这种情况下，符合美国国家消防局的生命安全规范。第二个项目是关于在执行复杂的有限元程序进行分析和设计时使用基于知识的系统作为辅助的可行性研究。所描述的最后一个项目通过并发执行的专家系统的交互来探索分布式专业知识在工程设计中的作用。

Equipment funds are provided to purchase two Explorer Workstations, two processors, mass storage, one Business Pro Personal Computer, and one Laser Printer. Research in the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies--especially knowledge-based (expert) systems--to engineering will be conducted. These AI technologies will be seen as providing ways to better engineering analysis and design. Three particular research projects will benefit. The first is the development of an expert system to assist architects and engineers as they check building designs to ensure that they meet code requirements, in this case the Life Safety Code of the NFPA. The second project entails a feasibility study of the use of knowledge-based systems as assistants when complicated finite element programs are exercised for both analysis and design. The last project described explores the role of distributed expertise in engineering design through the interaction of concurrently executing expert systems.